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As for the finalé, the first 3/4 quarters of the episode left me mourning and sobbing.

Spoiler:

Definitely Rosette & Chrno's end was given the Romeo-Juliet style demise that several of you were anticipating a month ago.

However, I'm not expecting in anyways that all the general population who'll always support the manga, get pleased 100% with this ending for the anime.

Why the ending seemed Impossible?! to me, you ask, was because of the happenings that occur during the last 1/4 quarter.

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Time moves fast forward 53 years into the future after Rosette's demise, Remington received a miserable fate and now has lead the life of a vagabond.

I mean... WTF! Happened to him during all those years? It seems as though he had lost faith completely?

What shocks me most was that he bumped into nonetheless than Aion!!!
Wasn't supposed that Chrno slayed him, along with his horns?!!

And Aion looks the same. I mean, he's wearing the same white trenchcoat.
I'm no fashion model, but clothing changes with fashion trend through time and seems that Aion is a lot outdated with his clothing.

Hmmm... quite a good ending to a... errr... not-so-great series. This final episode is definitely one of the better series finales in recent anime. It's quite emotional, somehow both happy and sad at the same time, very satisfying and brings a good sense of closure. Not really as good as Gungrave's ending (which IMO is the best finale of recent anime series), but close, at least until the last 2 minutes. My only complaint is about the last 2 minutes

Spoiler for very end:

so Aion lives? and what does it have to do with the assassination attempt at the Pope in 1981? I don't really understand at all. And what happened to Remington's... angel body? Aion becomes God?

I like this ending more than the manga one. both are good, but the anime ending has more sense of closure (ignoring the last 2 minutes that is)

Spoiler for rosette and chrno:

anyway the part where Rossette and Chrno live out their last days peacefully together and die together calmly holding hands is just soooo beautiful. Definitely one of the most beautiful scenes in recent anime

The ending was excellently achievable. Sad it was but not tragic. Although, the ending cannot save the series overall from its failure, the writers did a thing right to finish Chrno Crusade with a long, remainder sense of closure.

I applaud them for that, for giving us this beautiful ending that for me seemed epic just a like the ending of a literature play. (Ignoring the last two minutes, of course)

However....

Spoiler:

The last screenshot before the credits start to roll displayed a message in pure english explaining the third statement from the Fatima Prophecy which the Vatican kept sealed until the year 2000.

When I saw that message, I really felt a chilling sensation of omen foreboding that ran down across my spine. I think that message served as a warning to all people out there about what disasters might befall upon all them, if they don't measure the consequences of their actions.

I don't really understand the meaning of that entire part, is it supposed to give the series some "authentic" feel? yup there's indeed an assassination attempt at the Pope John Paul II in 1981, and indeed there is the Fatima Prophecy, but I think this series is far too... fantasy-ish to give any "realistic" feel anyway...

So my interpretation of the possible meaning of the very end

Spoiler:

1) Aion becomes God... kinda makes you wonder why they fight so hard...
2) you can't escape the path set by God despite whatever you do... also kinda makes you wonder why they fight so hard...
3) Aion becomes the Pope... makes even less sense than Aion becomes God...
4) We shall always follow God... errr... so this is supposed to be a Christian propaganda show? I don't think so...
5) Seriously, I don't understand...

Anyway the ending is perfect up to the point

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where the grown-up Azmaria visits Rosette's grave

I'll have to say again, such an excellent, touching, both happy and sad, and beautiful ending.

And I agree that even a wonderful ending can't save the show from its overall mediocrity...

This is absolutely senseless! If they end off at the part where Rosette and Chrno died peacefully together, its still acceptable. But end off with Remington no longer an angel and Aion still alive! Hey hey, that is not funny. You mean Rosette and Chrno sacrifice their life all for nothing!? Still, we are still unclear of Aion's purpose for still being alive. To wreack havoc again? Man, this is one of those endings that I hated the most.

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This is absolutely senseless! If they end off at the part where Rosette and Chrno died peacefully together, its still acceptable. But end off with Remington no longer an angel and Aion still alive! Hey hey, that is not funny. You mean Rosette and Chrno sacrifice their life all for nothing!? Still, we are still unclear of Aion's purpose for still being alive. To wreack havoc again? Man, this is one of those endings that I hated the most.

Spoiler:

obviously Remington still has an angel's body (he never said he was an angel, just that he has an angel's body, whatever that means), since he hasn't aged a single bit in the 53 years passed... I agree the last 2 minutes are absolutely senseless... I'll just pretend that the ending ends at a grown-up Azmaria before Rossette's grave, at least until someone can figure out what's the meaning that last 2 minutes...

The ending was very good. I wanted a Romeo and Juilet style ending, I got it. It was done well.
I liked the very end of the ending, too. Aion is very intelligent. He must've survived using that intelligence. The fight with Chrno in episode 23 could've just been a trick to get Chrno to use his power again, meaning Rosette would die and Chrno would kill himself, leaving Aion with no-one to get in his way.
Remington looked like he was no longer a part of anything in the future. Maybe the Magdalene organization no longer existed. Then, Remington would have nothing, which would explain why he looks like a tramp at the end.

I downloaded the raw type without translation, So I can't understand fully about the last episode especailly the last.
But the last two 23 and 24 are so short cause everything happened too quickly to understand. Aion was dead after a sound of "peng". Then Rosette and Chrono disappeared as quickly as possible. (It is better that they just never come out after, I believe.) When I saw them at the next episode, it seems like they died bit by bit in the past time. (If I'm not wrong, they lived together some years, longer than a supperman can make after such a serious fight.)
And the ending also confused me. People who has fought for their faith with all they have lost everything. And the one against all lives forever?!
....

The ending was very good. I wanted a Romeo and Juilet style ending, I got it. It was done well.
I liked the very end of the ending, too. Aion is very intelligent. He must've survived using that intelligence. The fight with Chrno in episode 23 could've just been a trick to get Chrno to use his power again, meaning Rosette would die and Chrno would kill himself, leaving Aion with no-one to get in his way.
Remington looked like he was no longer a part of anything in the future. Maybe the Magdalene organization no longer existed. Then, Remington would have nothing, which would explain why he looks like a tramp at the end.

I like the end too. But just cannot accept it rationally.
Chrono and Rosette have do their best to fight for their faith, and it's enough even die just after such a short fight?
Remington is only pass by, and the only thing he could do is just watch the world changing or the successment Aion achieves?
Is this understanding right?

If I'm not wrong, they lived together some years, longer than a supperman can make after such a serious fight.

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no, not some years, more like some days, about half a year I think. the tombstone says Rosette lived 1912-1928, so she died the same year as the start of the show (or she died 1929?).

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Then, Remington would have nothing, which would explain why he looks like a tramp at the end.

Well, indeed Remington had nothing... except his immortality I guess...

Spoiler for Aion at the end, God, and things:

I think Aion indeed become God, he said at the end something like "a beautiful age is coming, I'm Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end... Pandemonium will be filled with Light, Heaven will be filled with Darkness... Everyone is in my control." however I'm still not really sure if it's Aion who has "become God" through the actions he took in the series, or Aion is always God to begin with (making the whole series a trial of people's faith or something?) Currently I'm more inclined to think that Aion is always God and the whole thing is just a setup by God, as it seems that will fit the last message better ("we can do nothing but to see the times go by in the path God has chosen")

There's no trace of evidence that suggests that Aion became God. Indeed, Aion wanted to revolutionize the world, destroy Hell, and merge the Earth with Heaven. In order to overthrow God's reign and His eternal law, he had to provoke the Apocalypse himself by turning faith against mankind.

However, Aion's dream was foresaw by Magdalena to fail. It was predestined.

What I think happened to Aion's fate could be the following:
a) He became the next Satan (fallen angel) of Pandemonium. Episode 21 discussed that in order for Good to exist there has to be Evil which opposes it. For God's message of faith to triumph over the Devil, there has to be sin in order for people on Earth to acknowledge and repent from it, in order to achieve God's virtuous grace.
Also realize that it is suspicious what became of Pandemonium's head as it was never explained. The last time we see Pandemonium's head, Aion was holding and lift it while Pandemonium opened its mouth and emitted a noise from it and then there was light coming from it. Episode 21

b) Aion's fate remained unfullfilled. He couldn't dissappeared from this world or the next just like that, unlike Chrno who fullfilled his promise with Rosette. Aion still had unfinished bussiness left to do whatever they were. However, don't ask me about them because I'm ignorant what are they.

c) The power of Aion's horns is the restart of time fate, whereas Chrno's horns freeze time fate. This is better evidenced when all the children of the orphanage were defrost. However, this theory is really complex and even after Aion's horns were deposited by no reason at Magdalena's tomb, and then turn to dust.
What I can infere from this is that Aion 'miraculously' alter the time of his own fate stream and 'magically' restarted right after his horns crumbled.

d) Fast forward to 1981, Remington could just had imagined things and incredilously thought he had seen Aion. I mean if you're a human immortal who had spent the last 50 years alone and with no one in touch, that can worn out your mind and drive you insane.

However, what caught my attention about Remington is that I might had heard him say something like, he was a sinner.

why Aion's voice is at the end narrating those lines (I'm Alpha and Omega etc. etc.) I think it's Aion's voice but then my ability to distinguish between different people's voices is bad so correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway the message at the end practically says that everything is set by God and the world can do nothing but follow the path set by Him.

Spoiler for Remington:

well, he was previously an angel it seems, but when Elder asked him why he don't ask his boss to do something about the incoming war ("his boss" obviously refers to God), he said that he doesn't want to have anything to do with God, and has severed all ties to Him by tearing off his own wings willingly without regret. or something like that... so I guess you could call him a fallen angel. Thus he's a sinner I guess.

no we are not theologians, we are just trying to make sense of the ending...

some more on

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my theory of Aion being God. I think in one episode they said that Hell (Pandemonium) is between Heaven and Earth, so the light of God can't reach Earth and the world is dominated by influences from Hell's darkness. More reason why Aion/God want to change Hell to Heaven and Heaven to Hell, so now the position of Hell and Heaven switched, now the light of God can shine on both Earth and Hell, and Hell's darkness can't reach Earth, so maybe it's s good thing?